[computer-go] Elo and handicap matching

[Christoph Birk]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Alain Baeckeroot wrote:
>> For 9x9 ELO works better.     For 19x19 it's less clear cut.    The
>> handicap system appears to be a good system at 19x19 and has the very
>> nice merit of allowing grossly mismatched players to compete.       I
>> think the two systems can be married by adding a fixed offset per stone
>> handicap to your ELO.
>>
>
> Stats from official european go federation, on 150 000 games nearly solves
> the problem of doing ELO vs handicap matching.
> http://gemma.ujf.cas.cz/~cieply/GO/statev.html
>
> Just need to find one anchor, lets says gnugo , rated 6k on kgs in 2007-11...

That's nice, but on 19x19. I was interested in calibrating
CGOS 9x9 versus some moderatly strong humans.

Christoph